Revving Up for the Auto Auctions
Where $100,000 Is the Low End

By

Brock Yates

Updated Jan. 10, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

Travel note to anyone heading for Scottsdale, Ariz., during the week of Jan. 15: Bring money. Not that the little desert wonderland on the edge of Phoenix doesn't demand a full wallet in normal times, but the aforementioned seven days will practically immerse Scottsdale in showers of dollars, pounds, yen and euros as the wealthiest classic-car collectors on the planet gather in search of the automobile of their dreams.

During this amazing display of conspicuous consumption, more than $100 million will change hands at five...